Last year, when a PennWest California professor pitched the idea of using an underwater drone to study aquatic life in the Monongahela River, his suggestion was met with laughter. No one is laughing now. 鈥淧eople thought I was nuts for wanting to do this in the Mon River,鈥� recalled Dr. ...
A portrait of the nation鈥檚 first president is now hanging in the president judge鈥檚 courtroom inside the Washington County Courthouse. The print of George Washington 鈥� mounted atop a horse with a sword extended from his right hand during the Revolutionary War battle in Trenton, N.J. 鈥� ...
The potential closure of a Mon Valley frozen food processing plant will create a 鈥渢erritorial disaster鈥� for the 252 workers 鈥� many of them immigrants 鈥� who are employed there, according to a Pittsburgh immigration attorney. Facing a lawsuit for allegedly defaulting on $90 million in ...
A doctor who once worked in the Mon Valley has been accused of traveling to Ohio for a sexual encounter with someone he believed to be a minor. The office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the charges in a press release issued earlier this week. Dr. Robert Zewe Jr., 50, of Erie, ...
CARNEGIE 鈥� Vincenzo Lopez expressed his gratitude to the emergency responders who rescued him from a trench that collapsed in Charleroi Aug. 28. The Belle Vernon resident recalled his five hours spent in the trench at an event held Tuesday at the Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Strike ...
With less than three weeks to go until the Nov. 4 general election, thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots are now arriving in mailboxes across Southwestern Pennsylvania for voters to decide a range of positions from local races to statewide judicial seats. Elections officials in ...
